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Berkeley biogeochemist and geomicrobiologist Jillian Banfield studies very, very small things, but her work is vast in its scope and impact. So vast, in fact, that her discoveries have implications for space, the human body, and nearly everything in between.
Tag: microbe
Scientists sequence gut microbes of premature infant
January 13, 2011:
UC Berkeley scientist Jill Banfield and colleagues have for the first time sequenced and reconstructed the genomes of most of the microbes in the gut of a premature newborn and documented how the microbe populations changed over time. Banfield and pediatric surgeon Michael Morowitz hope that characterizing gut microbes of normal and sick infants could lead to the cause of necrotizing enterocolitis in preemies.
